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BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 108, 期 10, 页码 2601-2608出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2015.04.013
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- U.S. Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC)
- Stanford University's Certainty computer cluster - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) [W911NF07200271]
- National Science Foundation [CBET 1066263]
- Stanford Graduate Fellows in Science and Engineering (SGF)
It has long been known that platelets undergo margination when flowing in blood vessels, such that there is an excess concentration near the vessel wall. We conduct experiments and three-dimensional boundary integral simulations of platelet-sized spherical particles in a microchannel 30 mu m in height to measure the particle-concentration distribution profile and observe its margination at 10%, 20%, and 30% red blood cell hematocrit. The experiments involved adding 2.15-mu m-diameter spheres into a solution of red blood cells, plasma, and water and flowing this mixture down a microfluidic channel at a wall shear rate of 1000 s(-1). Fluorescence imaging was used to determine the height and velocity of particles in the channel. Experimental results indicate that margination has largely occurred before particles travel 1 cm downstream and that hematocrit plays a role in the degree of margination. With simulations, we can track the trajectories of the particles with higher resolution. These simulations also confirm that margination from an initially uniform distribution of spheres and red blood cells occurs over the length scale of O(1 cm), with higher hematocrit showing faster margination. The results presented here, from both experiments and 3D simulations, may help explain the relationship between bleeding time in vessel trauma and red blood cell hematocrit as platelets move to a vessel wall.
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